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Communist Party leader in Chinese city claims to have worked in New Haven City Hall
By Ed Stannard, Register Metro Editor
estannard@nhregister.com / Twitter: @edstannardnhr
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/11/25/news/new_haven/doc4ed033a492b66848778693.txt
NEW HAVEN — A rising Chinese communist star who claimed to have served as an assistant to Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in 2000 was largely responsible for the torture and imprisonment of an outspoken human rights activist, according to China watchers in this country.
Li Qun, who spent six months studying public administration at the University of New Haven, returned to China and was appointed mayor of Linyi, a city of 10 million, and then the city’s Communist Party leader, according to the 2008 book, “Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China” by Philip P. Pan.
Li’s role in brutally enforcing China’s one-child policy and keeping Chen Guangcheng under isolated house arrest was noted in an article in the Nov. 28 issue of National Review, the publisher of which, Jack Fowler, lives in Milford.
“Li Qun is now a rising star in the bureaucracy (in China) and right now the deputy governor of Shandong province and apparently the heir-apparent to the governorship,” said Jing Zhang of the group Women’s Rights in China. “Without his studies in the United States, he would not have experienced such meteoric promotions.”
Zhang, who lives in Flushing, N.Y., spoke through an interpreter, a volunteer with Women’s Rights in China, Yan Xu.
Li wrote about his time in New Haven City Hall in his own book, “I Was an Assistant to an American Mayor.” According to Pan, Li “wrote that Chinese officials could learn a lot from their American counterparts about how to improve governance.”
However, DeStefano “has absolutely no recollection of Li Qun,” according to city spokesman Adam Joseph. Joseph said Li could have served as an unpaid intern in a department other than the mayor’s office, but human resources “didn’t have a record of him.” Dan Kalmanson, spokesman for UNH, said he could not verify this week whether Li attended the school.
Chen Guangcheng is a prominent member of the dissident community in China. Blind since he was a baby, Chen has been imprisoned and placed under house arrest for speaking out about abuses by the communist regime, particularly concerning the one-child policy.
The group Initiatives for China, based in Washington, D.C., has asked the U.S. State Department to bar Li from entering the United States.
“With regards to Li Qun being the main person responsible for Chen Guangcheng’s case, I am of the opinion that Li Qun is a serious violator of human rights,” wrote the group’s president, Yang Jianli, in his Oct. 17 letter.
